Garth's Five LA Shows Sell Out in Under an Hour
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12/3/2007 Officials at Los Angeles’ Staples Center note that Garth Brooks sold over 85,000 tickets in just 59 minutes on Saturday (12/1), setting a venue sales record as the first artist to sell out five shows in a single day. Beyond the five-show record, Garth also lined up a pair of logistical records due to the unusual way the shows will be staged. Because the venue hosts home games for the Los Angeles Kings, Lakers and Clippers and all of them are playing in January, Garth will have to perform all five shows in a roughly 30-hour window across two days. The first of the five shows will kick off at 6 p.m. on Jan. 25, followed by a 10 p.m. show the same night. The next day, three shows will take place at 1 p.m., 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. Garth’s previously announced one-off show in Los Angeles quickly became a five-show run as available tickets were snatched up in record time. Garth and concert promoters AEG partnered on the Los Angeles shows as a benefit for California fire victims and firefighter programs in the wake of recent wildfires that burned through parts of the state. “It's a beautiful thing when everyone pulls together,” Garth said in a prepared statement. “California just raised a ton of money for their own. I'm so proud to be part of this.” Garth recently completely his nine-show run in Kansas City that also expanded from a single announced date, though that set of shows all took place on separate nights. In related Garth news, the singer donated objects from his extensive musical career to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History today (12/4). The Garth collection joins those of other American music legends, including Patsy Cline, Ray Charles and Duke Ellington. · Among the items which Garth presented the museum · His first gold record and cassette which he received for his self-titled 1989 debut album. · Handwritten lyric sheets for the song, “Beaches of Cheyenne” showing his revisions. · A Takamine guitar which Garth smashed during his 1991 NBC television special, This Is Garth Brooks. The museum will also collect the plaque for the special award Garth received in November from the Recording Industry Association America, proclaiming him the top-selling solo artist in recorded history with 123 million albums sold. A selection from the new Garth Brooks collection will be on temporary display in the museum’s “Treasures of American History” exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum beginning in January 2008. “Treasures of American History” represents the breadth of American history, featuring an engaging mix of the famous, and the familiar. The exhibition includes the Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz, Kermit the Frog, Abraham Lincoln's top hat, Thomas Jefferson's bible and Thomas Edison's light bulb.
